Smashed Chickpea Salad

 
 

Salads are an excellent way to add more vegetables and fruits to your diet, and they can be incredibly versatile and flavorful.

This Smashed Chickpea Salad. It's a salad full of fresh vegetables and herbs and you can ….

→add it to a bed of greens,

→place it atop sliced tomatoes and a bed of lettuce,

→serve it in a lettuce wrap,

→the sky’s the limit here ;-)

And as a bonus - it's chock FULL of awesome plant fiber! 🤩 If you want to bump up the protein some great quick additions are canned chicken or tuna.

Here's all that you need for this Smashed Chickpea Salad:

Ingredients

  • 1, 15 ounce Chickpeas, canned, Drained and Rinsed

  • 1/2 Lemon, Juiced and Zested (for 1 tsp zest)

  • 1 Tbs Olive Oil

  • 2 Tbs Olives, Kalamata, Pitted and Chopped

  • 1/2 cups celery, chopped

  • 1/4 Onion, red, Chopped

  • 1 Tbs Parsley, fresh, Chopped

  • Salt & Pepper, to taste

  • 3 Tbs sunflower seeds, raw

Directions

Make

  1. Chop olives, celery, onion, and parsley. Zest and juice lemon.

  2. Drain and rinse chickpeas.

  3. Add chickpeas, lemon juice, 1 teaspoon of zest, and olive oil to a bowl. Using a potato masher or fork, mash chickpeas to a coarse paste.

  4. Mix in the chopped ingredients, sunflower seeds, and season to taste.